How to get report solutions from SQL Server Reporting Services?

Question

How can one extract report solutions from SQL Server Reporting Services?

I may need to take over development of reports, but original solutions are... missing.

What can be done in such situation?

Answer 1

Yes that is possible. It depends on how many reports you have, but if you edit the properties of a report in the reporting services manager web site you can choose to download the rdl file, just add those to a new solution in visual studio. Have a look at this link

There are automated ways to get all rdl files if you want that too.

There is a SQL only way for example .

The easiest way in my opinion is using the RS.exe command line interface